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This year’s CPAC was probably as notable for the people and groups who didn’t show up, as it is for those who did. Since Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and a number of Beltway groups and think tanks were absent, the conference wasn’t necessarily a weathervane for where the conservative movement—depending how one defines it—is heading. [...]
Filed under: culture, libertarians, politics
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Do the “nine most terrifying words in the English language“* apply to citizens of other nations whom our government decides to “liberate”? We certainly were a busy bunch of government-is-the-problem types in the Nineteen Eighties. Postscript: Apologies (or a great, big “You’re welcome!” depending on what you think of me) for [...]
Filed under: politics
Events in Egypt have revealed something incredible about American political discourse. Most of the time, most Americans – and even most of the media pundits – operate under the assumption that America is a force for good in the world. They glean and grin and comfort themselves in “knowing” that America has a tradition of [...]
Filed under: foreign policy, ideas, politics, world
Libertarianism is the new Trotskyism, argues Christopher Beam in a recent New York magazine essay. It is appealing even to those unfamiliar with its basic tenets because of its outsider status, but also far beyond anything that could possibly be realized. Beam’s tendency to concentrate on extremes–rather than addressing specific policy objectives–has been rightly criticized, [...]
Filed under: libertarians, politics
I am not a Sarah Palin apologist, but casting any blame on her or the Tea Party for the terrible events that happened Saturday in Arizona is foolish. Jared Lee Loughner is a troubled soul and he alone is responsible for the Tucson massacre. The insistence by left-leaning politicians and pundits that “heightened” political rhetoric [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — It’s rare when Mr. Scallon writes something wherewith I find myself to be in disagreement, but the time has come. At @TAC, Sean writes, For Paul supporters, if he does not run, there are two potential candidates they would probably feel comfortable supporting: former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and current [...]
Filed under: politics
Perhaps the silliest narrative to spring up during Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was the fantasy that his presidency would bring forth the end of racial America. Pundits, mostly on the left, nearly wet themselves with glee entertaining this delusional idea. Obviously post-racial America has yet to emerge. The fiction of race retains a strong grasp [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — “[The House Democrats’ proposal for extending the Bush tax cuts for “the middle class”, whoever exactly they are,] was simply intended to send a message to the Democratic base: Democrats are for the middle class and Republicans are for millionaires,” claims Daniel Clifton of Strategas Research Partners. True or not, it [...]
In late 2006, an unknown Julian Assange posted two seemingly innocuous essays on his blog iq.org. The essays, “State and Terrorist Conspiracies” and “Conspiracy as Governance,” (PDF) appeared online around the same time Wikileaks first launched. The essays, which are nearly identical, advocate disrupting the tools authoritarian regimes use to collude or “conspire” in a [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — For numerous reasons with the details of which I shall not bore the intrepid reader who dares to work his way through this treasonously titled screed, I have been remiss in my obligations to PostRight, and thus am two weeks late in addressing this topic, about which I’ve continued to ruminate [...]